Richard Lawson

The first trailer for the long-in-gestation, long-wrestled-over remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has been released, and its main message is that Ben Stiller, who directed and stars in the film, is trying to say something serious.

Today in celebrity gossip: Justin Bieber's people say that he didn't spit on fans like people said he did, Gwyneth Paltrow takes a new England vacation, and a debate about Taylor Swift's bathing suit rages.

Shows like Louie and Enlightened — small, innovative, unconventional, and staggeringly smart series, — were nominated for Emmys this morning, a welcome change from the years of Boston Legal. But that doesn't mean that the Academy isn't getting anything wrong. They certainly are. There's just more right to balance it out.

This year's Emmy nominations will be announced bright and early tomorrow morning, sending some television shows and stars soaring to the heights of the profession, and leaving others cold and lonely in the dark. Who will be nominated? Who will be snubbed? Let's make some predictions in the big categories.

From the get-go, the second season of Aaron Sorkin's much-derided (and rightfully so) HBO drama The Newsroom, which premieres this Sunday night, is advertising its new sleekness. Having shed the weight of all its grand intentions, Sorkin's show is suddenly freed; it's livelier and looser and, I daresay, likable.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sarah Palin booster and spouter of various Karl Rove-approved talking points, should be a natural fit for Fox News, a network that gives its many loyal viewers exactly what they want exactly how they want it. But if you think about it a little more, I'm just not sure she's going to do all that well over there.

By now we all know that The Lone Ranger flopped, big time. With a write-down that could reach $190 million, Disney has some thinking to do about what went wrong. Where do they go from here? Well, as Dawn C. Chmielewski and Steven Zeitchik lay out in an interesting Los Angeles Times article today, a few things might be changing around the studio.

Today in celebrity gossip: Kate and Wills's baby will not be the only newcomer to the royal family, an Instagrammer claims she was at Leonardo DiCaprio's house, and Jenny McCarthy is up for a big gig at The View.

Today in show business news: We've got the first trailer for the Linda Lovelace biopic, Steven Spielberg wants to adapt the freaking Grapes of Wrath, and Gravity will have its world premiere this summer.

The Fourth of July weekend is great, but there's an air of sadness about it, too: If you think about it, it kinda means the summer is almost halfway over. Which means you need to get going on having that great summer you were planning. Here are some suggestions to make that happen.